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The Past Tense of Stick Is Stuck — and the Vowel Ladder Stick, Stuck, Stack, Steak
The simple past of stick is stuck, and the past participle is stuck too. The hard part is separating stuck from stack and stock by ear, and catching when it's turned into an adjective.
Strike's Past Tense Is Struck — Here's Where Stricken Still Survives
The simple past and past participle of strike are both struck — stricken only survives in a handful of fixed phrases. The hard part is telling struck apart from stuck by ear.
The Past Tense of "Shut" Is Still "Shut": Verbs That Never Change Form, Plus the Shut/Shot/Short Trap
The simple past and past participle of shut are both shut. The tricky part: when a verb doesn't change form, the tense has to show up somewhere else in the sentence — and shut gets stuck right between shot and short.
The Past Tense of 'Open' Is 'Opened' — and the Final D Almost Disappears in Fast Speech
Open is a regular verb, the past simple and the past participle are both opened. The tricky part is the d stuck right after the n, so there's almost no sound to it, and the pair was open vs. was opened.
Daily English Listening Practice: A 20-Minute Routine That Actually Sticks
Listening every day and still stuck in place usually isn't because you haven't listened enough — it's because you're listening in a way that doesn't make your brain work. The 20-minute framework below fixes exactly that.